I love Billy Barty. He was a really good person and activist, he left the world a better place when he started Little People of America.
He is briefly seen in the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, in an uncredited role as a baby in one of Dr. Pretorius' experiments, although his close-ups were cut out of the picture.

Hey that Leper was Dick Miller from Gunslinger and It Conquered the World. (Also Little shop of Horrors, Gremlins 1&2, The Wasp Woman, and X: the Man with the X-ray Eyes.) That makes only two people I can think of who have hat-tricked the Mystery Science Theater.

Its the store owner from #406 Attack of the Giant Leeches! Poor guy never has any luck with the ladies. Give it up for Bruno VeSota! From such hits as Daddy-O, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Gunslinger, The Wild Wild World of Bat Woman, and The Undead!

Does Pendragon stabbing Livia towards the end seem unreasonably cruel to anyone else? Sure, she's a witch and she has already been shown to kill someone, but, hell, she's always been nice to him and, at that point, she's just advocating the same position as everyone else.

Also, was that "I have been to the proletariat areas and consorted with the prostitutes" part supposed supposed to be a really obscure reference to George Orwell's '1984'?

...Tom quotes The Association's seminal "Windmills of Your Mind", from 'The Thomas Crown Affair' ("Round, like a circle in a circle; like a wheel within a wheel. Never ending or beginning, like an ever-spinning reel.....")

The first five times I watched this episode, I was as confused as Mike and the bots. I thought it was so boring, confusing, and barely watchable, so I never really paid any attention to it, but used this episode as background noise. I finally gave it a chance and watched it at full attention. This was an actually good movie. Okay, maybe I wouldn't go that far, but there is actually a good movie hidden within this movie. I really enjoyed it and found it almost thought provoking. It takes a few times, but it's actually good. I understand how other people don't enjoy it though, and I can understand why the MST3K crew gave it a good riffing. Without them, I wouldn't be able to have realized how good it actually was! Another way that MST3K has made my life more interesting

The film is so bad that I fell blessedly to sleep several times on several occasions trying to get through it. On the second attempt, I had to turn it off. So I disagree with almost everyone here, and I beg you to absorb vast quantities of your intoxicant of choice before attempting to watch this.

I double-checked, and there is indeed a coherent storyline in The Undead, but that sly devil Corman sure can hide it.
The problem with The Undead, as with other Corman productions, is confusion about the genre the movie is going for. In this movie we see some sci-fi in the beginning, comedy, violence, horror, romance, dancing, Smolkin's rockin' soundtrack, imping, and much huzzahing... With that much going on, I think it would make a great musical! The Sound Of Smolkin's Music. gross.

35:39- Crow says, "A small amphibious reptile!" Frogs aren't technically reptiles. I understand "amphibious" can describe reptiles that live in water and on land (crocs, turtles, etc.), but frogs are true amphibians. Just a small inaccuracy I noticed.

Y'know, normally I'd let this sort of thing slide but this time it's the flipping title. Why is it called The Undead? There are no zombies, skeletons, vampires, liches, mummies, or other reanimated deceased entities of any sort with the possible exception of Satan's Pep Squad which could just as easily be demons or illusions were it not for the gravestone shaped lumps in the background.

That said, I honestly think this has some of the best potential of any movie MST3k ever did. It needs better sets, director, and cast (except possibly good digger Smolkin) But I think with a bit of a polish and a run by a constructive editor, this could be a damn fine movie.

I only just noticed the Fugitive Alien reference at the end there: Satan laughs at the manipulative doctor dressed as a knight and Mike says "you're stuck here!"

I get the feeling that after the move to Sci-Fi, the writers were discouraged from making references to the older episodes (perhaps most readily apparent in the replacing of Torgo with Ortega as the go-to ugly henchman character). It's nice to see slight nods like this reference that may have flown under the radar.

I was pleasantly suprised at the 1st short, where Mike talks about getting sacked from his temp job, moving his lips wordlessly, with a thousand yard stare. Pissed off. I just got fired from my temp job last night. So be it, Jedi!

One of my all time favorite things about this episode is when ObServo is continuously dropping silverware. It's a direct reference to one of my favorite Marx Brothers gags from their second flick "Animal Crackers" from 1931. Harpo, however, remains mute during the gag, unlike Servo who can't help but run his mouth. (Both are endearing for those very same reasons.)

ooo oo oo, that crow correcting tom on his "brava" at the beginning, that's why i love this show so much. i got corrected on that when i was learning italian in italy and a girl i liked a lot made a lasagna and i took a bite and told her "bravo" and she just scowled and said "brava" ... yet "bravo" is more popular outside of italy, like saying "encore," yet the pre-movie skit showed tom was the most intelligent and crow turned in his test covered in drool .. one sneaky little intentional come-ups for crow written in as a post-skit punchline... god i love this show.

For a while, back in the dark ages when we didn't have full length videos of MST episodes, my boyfriend had the audio for this episode on his iPod in 10 different files. He'd fall asleep listening to these and sometimes it would get set to shuffle (as iPods do sometimes.) Honestly, the movie made about as much sense then as it does in its actual order.

Idiot! Stab the much hotter Livia for whiney co-dependent wacko future life hooker Helene, what was I thinking?! Livia was throwing herself at me! Take me Pendragon! Let me pleasure thee and give thee all the love thy heart can stand! Oh, and by the way, I’m a witch and can grant your every desire. Ok, how about shapeshifting yourself into the kitchen and get me a refill on my grog and some dinner on the table? Yes, my love! No, no, I didn’t want that deal! That might be too much fun! She even came with her own Imp. Hell, I don’t even know where to get an Imp!

Oh well, I’ll just go back to the Inn. At least I still have my good friend Scroop. He’ll know how to cheer me up. He always had a good head on his shoulders.

Finally got around to this ep, I'd seen the Digger SMolken lp skit long ago, and thought the guys had soared into airy Monty Python spheres. It's still funny, but not as, you know, Out There. Good ep, though, glad I disillusioned myself.

18:05-18:08-ish.....Seriously, what the WHAT is this guy saying?!? I've listened to it like twenty times with no hope of comprehension! Something about a gentle jailer and then he mashes the keyboard - vocally!